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Ida Walker was elected to the Kansas House of Representatives in 1920, along with three other women. She won the Republican primary against lawyer Robert Hemphhhill. She ran for the legislature from Norton County. Walker was co-editor with her husband of a monthly, The Real Westener, for which she wrote a column "On the Impulse."She was born in modest circumstances and later attended Normal college in Lincoln, Nebraska. She taught school for several years. Before election to the state legislature, Walker was active in her local community and president of the Kansas Federation of Women's Clubs.
